lacing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lac=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

lacing, n. 

•  The act of securing, fastening, or tightening, with a lace or laces.  [1913 Webster]
•  A lace;  [1913 Webster]
•  A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc.  [1913 Webster]
•  A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut.  Waddell.  [1913 Webster]
•  A quantity of a substance, such as an alcoholic liquor, added to a food or a drink; as, punch with a lacing of rum.  [PJC]
•  A beating, especially with a lash.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lacing, n.
1 lace trimming, esp. on a uniform.
2 a laced fastening on a shoe or corsets.
3 colloq. a beating.
4 a dash of spirits in a beverage.

Idiom

lacing course a strengthening course built into an arch or wall.

THESAURUS

lacing

adulteration, anchor, arabesque, band, bandage, bar, barrette, basketry, basketwork, bastardizing, bastinado, basting, battery, beating, bellyband, belt, belting, bind, binding, binding stone, binding twine, bobby pin, bollard, bolt, bonder, bondstone, box hook, brace, braces, brad, braid, braiding, buckle, buffeting, button, cable, cancellation, caning, carpet tack, catch, catgut, chain, cinch, cincture, clamp, clasp, cleat, click, clinch, clip, clothespin, clubbing, contamination, corking pin, corporal punishment, corruption, cotter, cowhiding, cross-hatching, crossing-out, cudgeling, cutting, debasement, dilution, doctoring, dowel, drubbing, enlacement, entwinement, entwining, fabric, fast, fibula, filigree, fillet, fishhook, flagellation, flailing, flogging, fortifying, fret, fretwork, funiculus, fustigation, garter, girdle, girth, grab, grapnel, grappler, grappling iron, grate, grating, grid, gridiron, grille, grillwork, gut, guy, hachure, hairpin, hamstring, hank, hasp, hatching, hawser, haywire, hitch, hitching post, holdfast, hook, hook and eye, horsewhipping, inkle, interknitting, interlacement, interlacery, interlacing, interlocker, intertexture, interthreading, intertieing, intertwinement, intertwining, intertwisting, interweavement, interweaving, kevel, kingpin, knitting, lace, lacery, lacework, lariat, lashing, lasso, latch, latchet, lattice, latticework, lead, leader, ligament, line, lock, loop, mesh, meshes, meshwork, monofilament, moorings, nail, net, netting, network, noose, nut, padlock, paper clip, pawl, peg, pin, pintle, pistol-whipping, plaiting, plexure, plexus, pollution, raddle, rawhiding, rein, reticle, reticulation, reticule, reticulum, riddle, ring, rivet, roller, rope, safety pin, scourging, screen, screening, screw, seal, sennit, setscrew, shoestring, sieve, sinew, skewer, slide fastener, snap, snubbing post, spanking, spike, spiking, splice, staple, strap, strapping, string, stripes, strop, stub tenon, suspenders, swingeing, switching, tack, tag, tendon, terret, texture, thew, thole, tholepin, thong, thrashing, thumbtack, tie, tie beam, tissue, toggle, tracery, treenail, trellis, trelliswork, trouncing, truncheoning, tug, twine, twining, twisting, vise, warp and woof, warpage, watering, wattle, weave, weaving, web, webbing, webwork, weft, weftage, whang, whipcord, whipping, wicker, wickerwork, wire, wreathing, zipper